A neighbour of the deceased ARISE News presenter, Somtochuwku Christelle Maduagwu, has narrated the terrifying events that transpired on the night of the robbery attack at her residence in Abuja. Maduagwu, a 29-year-old lawyer, model, and presenter, died on Monday during the assault.
The neighbour, writing under the X handle @lifegivingsun, described the feeling of false security: “We thought our apartment was safe — it’s in a very secure area. We thought our doors were strong; they got knocked. We thought we were safe with armed security, but about 15 hoodlums still attacked us, knowing they’d get away with it,” she wrote.
The neighbour described the violent invasion: “About past 3 a.m., I woke up stark naked to about four armed men who broke down my door and rushed in with machetes and guns. They robbed all 18 flats in my building — cash, electronics, two cars (one being a diplomatic car) — killed two people (Sommie and a security guard). Still traumatised and in shock.” The neighbour noted the robbers split into groups, with four in her apartment alone.
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The neighbour said it was Maduagwu’s scream that alerted the building: “And she shouted, she screamed! It was her scream that woke most of the neighbours, alerting us to the fact that we were under attack.”
She also lamented the slow police response: “But no emergency service, no sense of urgency from the policemen who showed up immediately, and the hoodlums ran away! I am livid and deeply heartbroken.”
She recounted the discovery of Maduagwu: “The most heartbreaking part was no one noticed her for so long — until I went downstairs to see what on earth just happened to us and found her lying face down. I was screaming for a car, but the mobile police had no urgency. A neighbour tried his best, gave her CPR, but she was gone,” she narrated.
Responding to various accounts of Maduagwu’s death, including claims of assassination, the neighbour noted that the occupants of the building have no conclusive answer. To a user asking why Maduagwu was murdered and if she resisted, @lifegivingsun replied: “None of us really knows unless there’s CCTV footage or an autopsy. Everyone is just making assumptions about what might have happened.”
She explicitly urged the public to stop the assassination claims: “Need people to stop spreading this agenda that they were assassins. They robbed a whole 18 apartments in less than 15 minutes. We don’t all have a conclusive reason for how she died because we found her lying flat in her blood, with no pants on,” she wrote.
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Perhaps she’s rated to death